LSAT 133 – Section 3 – Question 13

LSAT 133 - Section 3 - Question 13

June 2011

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
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PT133 S3 Q13
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
2%
160
B
87%
164
C
1%
156
D
7%
155
E
2%
155
137
146
154
 +Medium 147.69 +SubsectionMedium

Like a genetic profile, a functional magnetic-resonance image (fMRI) of the brain can contain information that a patient wishes to keep private. An fMRI of a brain also contains enough information about a patient’s skull to create a recognizable image of that patient’s face. A genetic profile can be linked to a patient only by referring to labels or records.

Summary
A functional magnetic-resonance image (fMRI) is similar to a genetic profile because it can contain information a patient wishes to keep private. An fMRI also contains enough information to create a recognizable image of a patient’s face. On the other hand, someone’s genetic profile can be linked to them only through labels or records.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
fMRIs can identify patients in a way that genetic profiles do not.

A
It is not important that medical providers apply labels to fMRIs of patients’ brains.
There is no support for whether it is important for medical providers to apply/not apply labels to fMRIs of patients' brains. You have to make this assumption.
B
An fMRI has the potential to compromise patient privacy in circumstances in which a genetic profile would not.
The stimulus says that an fMRI can reveal an image of a patient’s face while a genetic profile does not. This has the potential to compromise patient privacy in differing circumstances.
C
In most cases patients cannot be reasonably sure that the information in a genetic profile will be kept private.
There is no information about the safety of data in genetic profiles, so it is unreasonable to contend that most patients cannot be sure that their information is kept private.
D
Most of the information contained in an fMRI of a person’s brain is also contained in that person’s genetic profile.
This comparative statement is not supported. There are no details about how much information overlaps between an fMRI and genetic profile.
E
Patients are more concerned about threats to privacy posed by fMRIs than they are about those posed by genetic profiles.
This is an unreasonable assumption to make. The passage does not compare the level of concern patients feel about the privacy threats posed by fMRIs vs. genetic profiles. It is unclear whether patients even know about the potential privacy risks.

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